Sponsoring projects 2016

According to the online-voting of the Swiss QGIS user group, the following two sponsoring projects will be supported in 2016 with 5'000 CHF each:

QGIS 3.0 "PyQGIS Updater"

Geopackage improvements

Besides these two accepted projects, voters had the option to support the projects "DXF/DWG Import" and "multi-attribute editor". These two projects, however, got fewer votes than the above two accepted ones. Meanwhile the Kanton Basel Stadt stepped up to finance the project "multi-attribute editor" - thank you very much! We also still hope that financial commitments for the remaining approx. 10k € of the DXF/DWG import project can be received.

Following are a few details about the accepted sponsoring project:

QGIS 3.0 "PyQGIS Updater"

Continuous integration (Travis) - tests for both "Python2/PyQT4" as well as "Python 3/PyQT5".

Introduction of a compatibility layer that allows plugin authors to support both Python 2 and Python 3 from the same plugin code